Over 500 Mobile Apps Are Now Using the Term 'Metaverse' To Attract New Users (techcrunch.com) 26
A true "metaverse" may not yet exist, but that hasn't stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. From a report: According to new data shared today by Sensor Tower, there are now 552 mobile apps that include the term "metaverse" in their apps' titles or descriptions, in hopes of capturing consumer interest in this next evolution of the web. And many of the new additions were added in just the past few months, the firm notes. Across all global apps ranked apps on the App Store and Google Play, a total of 86 apps added references to the "metaverse" to their title or description between November 2021 and January 2022, Sensor Tower's data indicates.
jingle jingle (Score:2)
Ooo, look at the nice shiny keys! It'll help you forget all about that nasty data about you that we collect.
Ooo.
Re: jingle jingle (Score:1)
Happens With Every Tech Trend (Score:5, Insightful)
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> Get in on the buzzword and sell the hot thing.
I'll repackage MS Bob in an emulator on Android, call it "Metaverse", and make zillions!
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Or how games are all so "We're all NFTs!"
When in reality, it's just a custom skin. Sure they could toss it on a blockchain to make it legit, but since you can't really do anything with it, it's no different than before where the server kept the persistent state of your character for you.
Of course, the DeFi industry might want to pay attention because people are going to confuse the backlash against NFTs in games with NFTs in general thinking they're the same thing.
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After watching "Meta" (formerly known as Facebook) lost over $250 Billion in a single day, I don't think Metaverse will be a buzzword much longer.
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Who wants to guess the next Pet Rock of the 2020s?
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Back in the day I was looking for a simple ruler app. You know, it just displays a calibrated ruler on the screen for quick measurements. One of the most popular options was called "Smart Ruler Pro HD".
My buzzwords can beat up your buzzwords! (Score:4, Funny)
"Based on deep-learning quantum metaverse microservice web-scale edgeNode++ IOT monad matrix cloud web-assembly blockchain technology!"
Did I miss one?
Re: My buzzwords can beat up your buzzwords! (Score:3)
Add some software-defined full-stack fuzzy logic AI NFTs with decentralised smart contracts, please!
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Can I buy an NFT of that?
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You could refer to the next step in Metaverse evolution and call it: The Universe. No one's ever thought of that term just yet.
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Marvel
Wow (Score:2)
The birth of a buzz word, and it lost all meaning immediately.
Alternatives ... (Score:2)
metaverse
I now round-robin substitute these in my mind whenever I hear/read this term and try to back-fill things from there ...
(a) Met averse -- disliking the The Metropolitan Museum of Art [metmuseum.org]
(b) meta verse -- vague song lyrics no one really understands
(always looking more more)
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Me Taverse: words spoken when Taverse of the Apes introduces himself.
No lawsuits over the name? (Score:2)
I'm surprised no patent huckster has sued all of then claiming ownership of the name.
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Neal Stephenson can probably sue them...
Marketing hype & lies (Score:2)
just ignore & move on.
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NYCC (Score:2)
The company that runs the New York Comic Con used the term "Metaverse" for its cons since at least 2020. And the New York Comic Con is not a small organization that it could have been easy for Facebook to overlook.
That word... how can four letters mean so little?! (Score:2)
That's so meta of them!
What is a data-hungry website, rhetorically? (Score:2)
A Meta-vore.
Metaverse post (Score:2)
I just had to use the word "Metaverse" in my post caption to make people look at my comment. Isn't this a great post! Maybe I can sell it, with a catchy title like that!